8 months of working on my website & I find my website was once a porn website in 2006...

I was in a little bubble for a few months I kept getting told by friends "your website is not working in school/colege/university
at first I thought maybe I have dodgy back links but it seems when you do a search from years ago this website was once
a porn website redirected for another main website - according to the SEO team we should have already been a PR4 domain
with the rules we have followed by putting up proper content & basic seo rules (white hat)

The thing I don't understand is I had submitted it into the search engines etc it was a dropped domain that I had purchased last year so is Google still going to punish this domain because of its past?

Everything is as normal with this domain - everything ranks - fairly good amount of traffic its just this whole thing of it not working in certain workplaces and education places

Question) how would I go about getting such a stain removed - is this the reason why PR is remaining at 1

Any kind suggestions - your opinions - throw anything you want just need a basic idea on what you guys think of this thank you~

I wonder if you could have figured this out using archive.org before you bought the site? I've always been told to check sites before you buy them, but that's a real bummer man. Sorry to hear it.

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This was the first domain purchase - liked the name and built on it straight away without thinking and now its all coming back - a lesson learnt but just wondering if theres any pointers on how to turn this around

301 redirect is the way to go. Not 100% recover but it's the best you can do. Looks like google has no problem with the website. But you are in anti-porn software databases which is something you can't solve.

The domain is probably on the list of blocked sites in various netnanny/firewall software that universities and some big companies use. It'd be hard to get out of that list; you'd actually have to know what they're using that's blacklisting the domain and then could get in touch with that company to update the list and propagate it to their clients. A new domain and 301 redirect would be easier, definitely.

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